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Friedrich Chrysander ran a pickle factory on the side. But for years he lived on little more than rolls and water, and his wife sold flowers in the Hamburg market, to scrape together enough money to finance his life's work. It was to make a complete edition of Composer George Frederick Handel's works. Chrysander died in 1901, with the job far from done...
Back in Washington, Administration officials were doing a little more than just thinking. They were trying frantically to scrape up some dollars. They had some success...
...either of them gets hurt tomorrow, Harlow will have to use the still-shaky Nick Rodis, scrape the bottom of the Varsity barrel, and-or dip down into the Jayvee pool. Doug Bradlee and Rocky Stone will probably have ample opportunity to show their talent against the Indian tackles...
...technical proficiency will do him little good before the law, which considers a well-performed abortion quite as criminal as a bungled one. The doctor's record will do him no good either. Dr. Brandenburg was first accused of performing abortions in 1942 (no conviction). His most publicized scrape was over an alleged surgical altering of a criminal's fingerprints (his three-year sentence for "concealing knowledge of a crime" was set aside on the ground that he had concealed no offense defined by federal statute...
...Negroes who showed up at the polls were mostly permitted to vote without challenge. Thus, the constitutional issue raised by the new law was not sharply joined. There was only one instance of violence. In the tiny town of Moselle, four white men got into a shooting-scrape over letting Negroes vote; one was killed...